[comp.protocols.time.ntp] Transatlantic tick

Mills@udel.edu (12/28/90)

Folks,

Apparently, the situation across (under) the Atlantic has
improved to the point that Norway chimes are about as good
as California chimes, at least here in the wilds of
Delaware. The present dispersions of a few tens of milliseconds
are far less than the previous rattle and roll up to a few
seconds at times. Accordingly, I reconfigured the timer.nta.no
and timer.unik.no fuzzballs for tighter tolerance in order
to resolve the seconds from this side of the Atlantic (the
resolution less than a second is determined by a cesium clock
at timer.nta.no and LORAN-C receiver at timer.unik.no). All this
should further reduce the possibility of synchronizing on the
wrong second.

Dave